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Psychology

Not Under My Roof Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex

Schalet Amy T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226736198, ISBN: HB: 9780226736181, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
312 pp., 23x15 cm

For American parents, teenage sex is something to be feared and forbidden: most would never consider allowing their children to have sex at home, and sex is a frequent source of family conflict. In the Netherlands, where teenage pregnancies are far l...

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Political Science

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Doctors and Demonstrators How Political Institutions Shape Abortion Law in the United States, Britain, and Canada

Halfmann Drew

ISBN: PB: 9780226313436, ISBN: HB: 9780226313429, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 halftones

Since "Roe v. Wade", abortion has continued to be a divisive political issue in the United States. In contrast, it has remained primarily a medical issue in Britain and Canada despite the countries' shared heritage".Doctors and Demonstrators" looks b...

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Social Knowledge in the Making

Camic Charles, Gross Neil, Lamont Michele

ISBN: PB: 9780226092096, ISBN: HB: 9780226092089, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
464 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 tables, 4 line illus.

Over the past quarter century, researchers have successfully explored the inner workings of the physical and biological sciences using a variety of social and historical lenses. Inspired by these advances, the contributors to "Social Knowledge in the...

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Interpretation and Social Knowledge On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences

Reed Isaac Ariail

ISBN: PB: 9780226706740, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
216 pp., 22x14 cm, 12 line illus.

For the past fifty years anxiety over naturalism has driven debates in social theory. One side sees social science as another kind of natural science, while the other rejects the possibility of objective and explanatory knowledge. "Interpretation and...

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Anthropology

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Cultural Evolution How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences

Mesoudi Alex

ISBN: PB: 9780226520445, ISBN: HB: 9780226520438, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 11 line illus.

Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there has also been increased interest in the social sciences in how Darwinian...

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Music

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I Belong to This Band, Hallelujah! Community, Spirituality, and Tradition among Sacred Harp Singers

Clawson Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226109596, ISBN: HB: 9780226109589, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
224 pp., 22.4x15 cm

The Sacred Harp choral singing tradition originated in the American South in the mid-nineteenth century, spread widely across the country, and continues to thrive today. Sacred Harp isn't performed but participated in, ideally in large gatherings whe...

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Culture Studies

Not Here, Not Now, Not That! Protest over Art and Culture in America

Tepper Steven J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226792873, ISBN: HB: 9780226792866, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
384 pp., 25x15 cm, 38 tables, 8 line illus.

In the late 1990s "Angels in America", Tony Kushner's epic play about homosexuality and AIDS in the Reagan era, toured the country, inspiring protests in a handful of cities while others received it warmly. Why do people fight over some works of art...

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Architecture

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Building Globalization Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China

Ren Xuefei

ISBN: PB: 9780226709819, ISBN: HB: 9780226709802, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 4 maps, 15 tables, 18 halftones

From the years 2004 to 2008, Beijing and Shanghai witnessed the construction of an extraordinary number of new buildings, many of which were designed by architectural firms overseas. Combining ethnographic fieldwork, historical research, and network...

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Gabriel Tarde On Communication and Social Influence Selected Papers

Tarde Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9780226789712, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
332 pp., 20.1x13.5 cm

Gabriel Tarde ranks as one of the most outstanding sociologists of nineteenth-century France, though not as well known by English readers as his peers Comte and Durkheim. This book makes available Tarde's most important work and demonstrates his cont...

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Europe

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Political Epistemics The Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism

Glaeser Andreas

ISBN: PB: 9780226297941, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
640 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 17 line illus.

What does the durability of political institutions have to do with how actors form knowledge about them? Andreas Glaeser investigates this question in the context of a fascinating historical case: socialist East Germany's unexpected self-dissolution...

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